Marine Gazetteer Placedetails

MRGID http://marineregions.org/mrgid/7251
Status Proposed standard Proposed standard
Name
Language Name Name source
EnglishDuToit Fracture ZoneIHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names   
PlaceType Fracture Zone 
Latitude 49° 31' 28.1" S (-49.52447775°)  
Longitude 28° 0' 0.2" E (28.00005165°)  
Min. Lat 53° 0' 0" S (-53°)  
Min. Long 25° 30' 0" E (25.5°)  
Max. Lat 46° 0' 0" S (-46°)  
Max. Long 30° 10' 0" E (30.1667°)  
Source IHO-IOC GEBCO Gazetteer of Undersea Feature Names, available online at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/gazetteer/
Notes GEBCO: associated meeting, proposer and year of proposal (en): Associated meeting: SCGN-6. Proposer: Hugh W. Bergh and I. Norton, Wits Bernard Price Institute (BPI), South Africa. Year of proposal: 1970.    
GEBCO: discoverer and year of discovery (en): Discoverer: South African fisheries research vessel "Africana II". Year of discovery: 1963. History: Named after Alex DuToit, South African geologist, a 1920-1930s pioneer in continental drift renaissance.    
Additional information (en): Mapped by the South African research vessel "Agulhas" and the SIO's research vessel "Melville" (1984).    
Coordinates in ACUF (en): Latitude: -49; Longitude: 28    
ACUF unique id (UFI) (en): -153228    
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Edit history Last edited on 2016-04-23 15:22:42 by Oset Garcia Paula
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